The liberal we knew how to get.

Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Alvaro Alsogaray, the least charismatic and most influential liberal leader of Argentina in the second half of the 20th century. Decades after his political heyday, Argentines continue to have to “spend the winter,” as one of his most famous phrases says, laborously. Why? What can we learn from Alsogaray and his time? Can this new libertarian era take advantage of it? Few political figures were…